Happy official second day of fall! One of the things I love about fall is going to the pumpkin patch and our church fall festival with my family. Inevitably at these things, my youngest is desperate to ride the pony. (There’s always a pony and for the low low price of usually between $6 and […]

Happy Sunday! This past week was a bit of a rollercoaster as the tiny beginnings of fall brought hurricane Florence our way. On Monday, she was headed straight for Virginia (where I live) and while we’re not super near the coast, they were saying we’d be looking at up to 12″ of rain on our […]

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned before that I run the Awana program at our church. (If not, well, I do!) For those who aren’t sure what Awana is, it’s a Bible memory and discipleship program for kids from 2 years old through high school. And it’s fun! Awana comes from 2 Timothy 2:15 and stands […]

This is the weekend I always consider the “official” back-to-school weekend. I know a lot of schools have already started–we have here in our homeschool AND in the local public schools (although, that’s new the last two years. It used to be the Tuesday after Labor Day. Period. I’m not sure how people managed to […]

Here we are back at Sunday again! Anyone else feel like their summer (or for those of you in the Southern Hemisphere, winter) has zipped past? Hubby and my boys have been busy the last two weekends adding on a “watch tower” to their fort. (You can’t see the rest of the fort – just […]

Have you ever wanted to go skydiving? (Or maybe you’ve been?) I will admit that it has never been anything that was on my radar as something that I should do. My husband was in the Army for a bit when we were first married, and he did Airborne school. He’s quick to tell me […]

Happy Sunday! Today is my husband’s and my 23rd wedding anniversary, so I thought you might enjoy a few pictures from one of my favorite days ever. (Although I’ll apologize for their quality – I was too lazy to pull them out of the album and scan them, so I just took pictures with my […]

Welcome to August! I always find the first days of August to be a little bittersweet. It’s definitely the wind-down of summer in my mind as we begin to get bombarded by back-to-school sales, tax-free weekends, and the traffic on the major interstate near me fills up even more than usual with last hurrah vacations […]

It’s been a pleasure showing you Western Canada in Sunday Editions in June and July. This is the last week I’ll be your hostess for a while, and so I wanted to share our local scenery here in southeastern British Columbia. My husband and I, along with our ten-year-old Black Lab cross, Brody, spent a […]

The Canadian province of Saskatchewan is known as the Land of Living Skies, so I want to show you a few of the sky photos I took on our recent visit. As you might recall, I live in British Columbia, surrounded by mountains, lakes, and forests. These make my heart happy! But, because of the […]